Henri Matisse News
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Stored inside a laptop at FBI headquarters are photos of thousands of paintings, sculptures and artifacts, works by Vincent Van Gogh and Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Paul Cezanne -- international treasures worth millions of dollars each. All are missing.
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Christie’s New York rang up $158.5 million in sales of Impressionist and modern art last night in a brisk yet lackluster auction.
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The Helly Nahmad Gallery in Manhattan reopened a week after it was raided by U.S. agents, and will continue to operate as the owner faces charges he ran a high-stakes gambling ring that catered to celebrities and the very wealthy, his lawyer said.
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A German government panel said a museum in Cologne should return a portrait by Oskar Kokoschka valued at 3 million euros ($3.9 million) to the heirs of Alfred Flechtheim, a Jewish art dealer persecuted by the Nazis.
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Christie’s International held its smallest New York evening Impressionist and modern art sale in 2 1/2 years, at the outset of an auction fortnight expected to total as much as $1.5 billion.
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Henri Matisse ’s life-size bronze of a woman’s back sold for $48.8 million, an auction record for the artist, as Christie’s International ’s New York Impressionist and modern art sale sustained a recovery from last year’s recession.
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The plan may be flawless, the booty priceless and the robbery perfectly executed. Yet art thieves seldom consider how they will get rich from their stolen masterpieces, art-crime experts said.
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A Matisse painting that once belonged to Lew Wasserman and a trio of Maillol bronzes from the collection of John W. Kluge will be among art offered during the next two weeks as New York auctioneers present works valued at more than $1.1 billion.
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Thieves stole five paintings including works by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse from the Musee d’Art Moderne in Paris, according to unidentified officials quoted by the French news agency AFP.
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An Amedeo Modigliani 1917 nude sold for $68.96 million, a record for the artist, helping Sotheby’s reach its highest total for a New York Impressionist and modern art sale since May 2008.
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